Window



(No Model.)

' E. KEUSER.

WINDOW APPLIANGE.

No.,528,481. Patented Oot. so, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()F ICE,

EMANUEL KEUSER, oE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MARY KEUSER,OF SAME PLAoE.

WINDOW APPLIANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ?atent No. 528,481, dated October30,1894.

Application filed May 17, 1894:. Serial No. 511,622. (No model.)

I To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL KEUsER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Window Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to that class of window sash arranged so as tobe manipulated on pivots to permit of the turning of v the same; and insuch connection it relates more particularly to the general constructionand arrangement of a window-sash and the provision of the same withmeans for locking and unlocking the same from traveler rails or stripsconnected with the sash-frame.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a simple,durable and effective window-sash arranged so as to be readilymanipulated to facilitate cleaning and glazing of the windows thereofand painting of the frame-work of the same as well as to afford therebyventilation of a room; second, to provide a window-sash pivotallysupported to movable rails or strips engaging channels or stiles of thesash frame-work and having a device connected with the sash and adaptedto engage each strip or rail of the appliance so as to be readilymanipulated to permit of the'locking and unlocking of the sash; and,third, to provide a sash-frame with traveler strips or rails controlledby concealed weighted cords and the respective strips or rails havingpivoted thereto the window sash provided with locking devices connectedwith the sash and adapted to engage means provided in the traveler railsor strips in such manner as to readily lock and unlock one to and fromthe other.

My invention consists of the improvements in window sash constructed andarranged for operation in substantiallythe manner hereinafter describedand claimed.

The nature and scope of myinvention will be more fully understood fromthe following description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings forming part hereof, and in which- Figure 1, is a verticalsection through a window sash and its frame-work embodying gage pins orretaining means provided in the traveler rails or strips controlled byconcealed Weighted cords set into the frame-work in the mannerillustrated in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the travelerrail or strip for engaging and traveling in the channeled ways or stilesof the sash framework and having pivoted thereto a sash provided with alocking device as illustrated in Fig. 3, and for manipulating the sameto cause engagement of the sash with its traveler rail or strip forlocking the same thereto.

Referring to the drawings, A,,is the sash -frame-work of any suitableconstruction.

A, represents a parting bead and onboth sides thereof are formed ways orstiles a and o for a purpose to be presently more fully explained. I

B and B are traveler rails orstrips adapted to move up and down on eachside in the channeled ways or stiles a and a and provided with cords ahaving weights, not shown, concealed in the frame-work A. These cords apass over pulleys a j ournaled in brackets a set into the upper parts ofthe ways or stiles a and a", as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.Each of the rails or strips B and B, are provided with slits b and 1),formed in the body thereof and with cross pins or steps b and b to bepresently more fully explained.

C and O, are the upper and lowersash pi voted to the traveler rails orstrips B and B, at c and 0'. These pivots or pins are preferably setinto brass tubes or similar devices, in order to prevent wear of thesamein' their connection with the sash and traveler rails or strips, asclearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

d, are oblong slits formed in one or both of the vertical strips of eachwindow sash-frame and engaging therein is a metal strip D, as clearlyshown in Fig. 3, with a handle or loop 01', and-having in the bodythereof acute angular slits d and (i engaged by cross pins d and dsecured into and through the vertical side strips of the sash-frame andnear one edge thereof are provided notches or slits d and (1 forengaging the cross-pins b and h of the traveler rails or strips B and B,as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, whereby through a hand manipulation ofthe said locking device D, of each window sash operated from the bottomof the upper sash and from the top of the lower sash, the said framescan be readily locked to and unlocked from the respective traveler railsor strips 13 and B, to permit in the one instance of a turning of thesash around for various purposes and in the other to hold the sashfirmly in a vertical position to said rails or strips B and B.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A window appliance, comprising a frame provided with weighted travelerrails or strips having slits therein and cross-pins, a sash pivoted tosaid rails or strips and having the side strips thereof provided withslits and pins and a locking device movably engaging the side strips ofsaid sash and having notches for engaging the cross-pins spanning theslits of said rails or strips, substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

EMANUEL KEUSER.

Witnesses:

RUDOLPH MEYER, WILLIAM H. HAGEL.

